Establishing and managing connections for real time communications
US10616285B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 26, 2016 |
| Grant date | Apr 7, 2020 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 8, 2036 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04W76/19
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Methods and systems related to supporting real time communications are disclosed. In one type of a real time communication session, prior to an offer and acceptance to perform real time communications, a communication channel may be established between a caller device and a callee device. Information related to addresses of the caller and callee devices can be contained in, or pointed to, by a Universal Resource Locators (URLs) for the caller and callee devices. A network computing device may communicate messages relating to establishing and maintaining the communication channel between the caller and callee devices. In a scenario where the network computing device becomes unavailable, another network computing device can use the URLs and other channel information that may be stored in the database, to handle messages. In one embodiment, messages identify the caller or callee devices, to which each message is directed, using target URLs (caller and callee URLs), which reduces the need to access information related to the intended target.
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